Crab Cakes
Crab Cakes by Van De Kamp's has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.2 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is A.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Crab Cakes have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Crab Cakes sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.2 Top 40% higher than 60% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
CRAB MEAT, IMITATION CRAB MEAT (POLLOCK, COD AND/OR PACIFIC WHITING, WATER, WHEAT STARCH, POTATO STARCH, SUGAR, TAPIOCA STARCH, SNOW CRAB MEAT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS [SOY], SORBITOL, EGG WHITES, CARRAGEENAN, POTASSIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, COLOR ADDED, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, SALT, CARMINE, PAPRIKA OLEORESIN, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOY LECITHIN), POLLOCK, BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, CELERY, CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, STABILIZERS [CAROB BEAN AND/OR XANTHAN, GUAR GUMS]), ONIONS, RED PEPPERS, GREEN PEPPERS, WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SOYBEAN OIL, NONFAT DRY MILK, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CANE JUICE MOLASSES, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, XANTHAN GUM, MUSTARD SEED, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), CITRIC ACID, HYDROLYZED SOY AND CORN PROTEINS, GUAR GUM, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SODIUM INOSINATE, DRIED YEAST, TURMERIC, GARLIC SALT, SPICES, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWD
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Crab Cakes: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.2/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Van De Kamp's
- Barcode
- 0019600920045
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Crab Cakes's safety score compare to other products?
Crab Cakes scores 4.2 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 60% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Crab Cakes's 4.2/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.2/5 average places Crab Cakes in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.